The legal team in Brown v. Board of Education was led by Thurgood Marshall, who was the chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He was supported by other prominent lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston and Robert L. Carter. Together, they argued that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Their efforts culminated in the landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954 that declared segregation in public education unconstitutional.
The original class action suit filed in US District Court against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education comprised thirteen named plaintiffs on behalf of their twenty-one children. Oliver Brown was chosen as the nominal plaintiff because the NAACP legal team believed it would give them a strategic advantage.The plaintiffs, listed alphabetically:Darlene BrownOliver L. BrownLena M. CarperSadie EmmanuelMarguerite EmersonShirla FlemingMrs. Andrew (Zelma) HendersonShirley HodisonMrs. Richard (Maude) LawtonAlma LewisIona RichardsonVivian ScalesLucinda ToddCase Citation (District Court):Brown, et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, 98 F. Supp. 797 (D. Kan. 1951)For more information, see Related Questions, below.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) played a major role in bringing Linda Brown's case against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, before the Supreme Court in 1954. The NAACP's legal team, led by Thurgood Marshall, argued that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This landmark case ultimately led to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Linda Brown (Thompson), was the best known of the African-American children represented in the consolidated US Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) that challenged the constitutionality of segregation in the public schools.Contrary to popular belief Linda's father, Oliver Brown, did not initiate the original case against the Topeka, Kansas, Board of Education. The NAACP recruited African-American parents from within the school district with the hope of bringing a test case before the US Supreme Court. Brown was one of thirteen named plaintiffs in the class action suit; his name was on the case because the NAACP legal team believed it would be strategically advantageous for the case.The legal team advised the parents to attempt to enroll their children in the all-white elementary schools near their homes, knowing the children would be rejected due to their race. Linda lived within walking distance of a white school, and was friends with many of the children who attended the elementary, but had to be bused to a segregated school for African-American children several miles away.
Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) was a unanimous decision of the US Supreme Court.Chief JusticeEarl WarrenAssociate JusticesHugo BlackStanley F. ReedFelix FrankfurterWilliam O. DouglasRobert H. JacksonHarold H. BurtonTom C. ClarkSherman Minton
John Hope Franklin did many things in his lifetime to fight racism. He served on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund team helping to develop the Brown verses Board of Education Case. He worked as a professor at Fisk University, St. AugustineÕs College, and the North Carolina College for Negroes. More information on the accomplishments of John Hope Franklin can be found at your local library.
The photo accessible via Related Links (below) shows the NAACP lead legal team for the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).Pictured from left to right: Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood w. Robinson III.For a more comprehensive list of people who worked on the case, see Related Questions, below.
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Yes. NAACP civil rights attorneys Oliver W. Hill and Spottswood Robinson III were co-counsel for a Virginia segregation case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County,103 F.Supp. 337 (1952), that was consolidated with the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).Davis was the only case of the four consolidated into Brown that was initiated by the plaintiffs, students of R. R. Moton High School, in Farmville, Virginia, who went out on "strike" to protest conditions at their school. Moton was so under-funded, some of the classes were held in a broken down bus parked on school property. The classrooms had neither desks nor blackboards, nor did the rundown building contain a gym or cafeteria. When the school requested additional funding from the all-white school board, their request was denied.Both the Virginia state court and federal US District Court found in favor of the school district.Hill was part of the core legal team that brought Brownto the US Supreme Court.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
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